Sawfish (window manager)

For other uses, see Sawfish (disambiguation).

Sawfish

Screenshot of Sawfish
Developer(s)	John Harper (retired), Sawfish community
Stable release	1.8.1 / May 1, 2011 (2011-05-01)
Written in	C, Lisp
Operating system	GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Unix, Mac OS X
Available in	Multilingual
Type	Window manager
License	GNU General Public License
Website	http://sawfish.wikia.com/

Sawfish is an extensible window manager for the X Window System. Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. Formerly known as Sawmill, the name was changed because another software program had the same name.

Distinctively, Sawfish uses a Lisp-like scripting language, rep, for all of its code, making it particularly easy to extend. For example, it can incorporate keybindings for XMMS and has extensive window matching rules to automatically alter a particular window's position, behavior and appearance.

Sawfish does not come with a panel and was the standard window manager of the GNOME desktop environment until it was replaced by Metacity in GNOME 2.2.

The latest released version, 1.8.1, was released on 3rd of May, 2011

See also

• StumpWM, a tiling window manager in Common Lisp.
• xwem[1], a window manager "based" on Emacs (an ELisp module for being run by XEmacs. Development stopped in 2003.).

External links

• Official Sawfish Website Wiki
• Sawfish development host at tuxfamily.org